The Institute for Creative Arts

THE INSTITUTE FOR

CREATIVE ARTS launches Africa’s eminent performance art platform, the International LIVE ART Festival - 1 to 16 September.

The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) launches Africa’s eminent performance art platform, the International LIVE ART Festival this spring from 1 to 16 September. Returning to Cape Town for its fourth anniversary, the ICA Live Art Festival 2018 showcases a gathering of some of the most influential visual and performance artists from South Africa as well as from around the world. Creating spaces for new transgressive work in a non-commercial environment, these innovative works will also be free of charge to all.

The programme delivers a rare selection of cutting edge works presented together in one programme navigating the various publics to the corners of their comfort zones, offering audiences an immersive experience to connect with relevant issues confronting society.

The free and public nature of the ICA Live Art Festival is vested in a commitment to the value of contemporary live art as a means of facilitating encounters that encourage people to think and feel about a range of important issues in new and different ways.

Previous Page and above: Sikhumbuzo Makandula in Mzilikazi. Makandula will present Ingoma ka Tiyo Soga at ICA LIVE ART Festival 2018 photo by Ashley Walters, Courtesy of Institute for Creative Arts. Right: Albert Khoza performing at ICA LIVE ART Festival 2014, photo by Ashley Walters, Courtesy of Institute for Creative Arts.

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With up to 40 different presentations, the Festival this year will be presented on four platforms. The first, entitled Trajectories, will focus on the development and histories of live art, comprising productions that emerge from different lineages. Notably, a number of artists connect contemporary live art with classical African tradition, reminding us that the presence of live art on the African continent long predates the coinage of the term in the West.

In The Spotlight (a small selection of the works to be presented)

PLATFORM ONE - Trajectories

Albert Ibokwe Khoza & Robyn Orlin And so you see...our honourable blue sky and ever enduring sun…can only be consumed slice by slice

Sikhumbuzo Makandula & Mthwakazi Ingoma ka Tiyo Soga

Bongani Madondo Zulu: Credo Mutwa’s Fantasia in Praxis

Donna Kukama We the Not-Not People! -Things done, not told. Inscribed, not written.

John Nankin Death and Utopia (aka The Young Pioneers)

PLATFORM TWO - Actions and Activism

Nastio Mosquito Respectable Thief

Nelisiwe Xaba Bang Bang Wo

Sello Pesa Bag Beatings

Mamela Nyamza Black Privilege

Above left: Jackie Manyaapelo in Satisfaction Index - Threaded Through Flesh at 3 Thoughts | 3 Directions photo by Lerato Maduna - Courtesy of Institute for Creative Arts. Above right: Rudi van der Merwe’s Trophee at ICA LIVE ART Festival 2017 photo by James MacDonald - Courtesy of Institute for Creative Arts Left: Jelili Atiku in Come Let Me Clutch Thee at ICA LIVE ART Festival 2017 photo by Ashley Walters - Courtesy of Institute for Creative Arts

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Nora Chipaumire in ‘100% Pop’ photo by Lerato Maduna

“With up to 40 different presentations, the Festival this year will be presented on four platforms.”

PLATFORM THREE - In the Time of the Anthropocene

Cornelia Knoll Untangling Colonial Ecologies

Uriel Orlow Theatrum Botanicum

PLATFORM FOUR - Intimacies and Biography.

Laila Soliman, Stacy Hardy, Neo Muyanga & Nancy Mounir Museum of Lungs

FAKA The Factory

Athi-Patra Ruga Things We Lost in the Rainbow

ICA Director and Curator of the Festival, Jay Pather said: “This interdisciplinary festival is designed to extend and in some respects challenge the public’s experience of live art and at the same time make accessible the work of visual and performing artists who explore new forms, break boundaries, flout aesthetic conventions, tackle controversy, confront audiences and experiment with perceptions.“

LIVE ART performances will tour across public venues of the Mother City from the University of Cape Town’s Little Theatre Precinct, to Iziko National Galleries, Zeitz MOCAA, and various spaces in the city centre, such as the Cape Town Station, the Company’s Garden, the Planetarium and the Castle of Good Hope.

For programme details visit www.ica.uct.ac.za

Sue Williamson One Hundred and Nineteen Deeds of Sale

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